I think the point that you're making here is subtle and that people are missing it. Your small team can _comfortably manage_ 50k/mo worth of AWS resources. Tha

I think the point that you're making here is subtle and that people are missing it. Your small team can _comfortably manage_ 50k/mo worth of AWS resources. That's _INCREDIBLE_. I think people mistakenly think that cloud costs only go up exponentially and that costs are an unmanageable mess. I've worked with teams with hundreds of engineers serving a major enterprise and only an AWS bill 3-5x yours. And they only had a small team managing it all. Comfortably. To do similar with physical servers requires a massive stack of people and salaries. The ongoing recruiting costs to maintain staffing would dwarf what the AWS bill is.